TEST BANK FOR PRIMARY CARE ART AND
SCIENCE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
AN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH 5TH
EDITION DUNPHY ALL CHAPTERS UPDATED
2026
,Primary Care: The Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing – An
Interprofessional Approach — Table of Contents (Chapter Titles)
1. Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of Caring
2. Caring and the Advanced Practice Nurse
3. Health Promotion
4. The Art of Diagnosis and Treatment
5. Evidence-Based Practice
6. Common Neurological Complaints
7. Seizure Disorders
8. Degenerative Disorders
9. Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)
10.Infectious and Inflammatory Neurological Disorders
11.Common Skin Complaints
12.Parasitic Skin Infestations
13.Fungal Skin Infections
14.Bacterial Skin Infections
15.Viral Skin Infections
16.Dermatitis
17.Skin Lesions
18.Common Eye Complaints
19.Lid and Conjunctival Pathology
20.Visual Disturbances and Impaired Vision
21.Common Ear, Nose, and Throat Complaints
22.Hearing and Balance Disorders
23.Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders of the Ear
24.Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders of the Nose, Sinuses, Mouth, and
Throat
25.Epistaxis
26.Temporomandibular Disorders
27.Dysphonia
,CHAPTER 1 TEST BANK QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 1: Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of
Caring
Primary care in the twenty-first century emphasizes patient-centered, accessible,
comprehensive, and coordinated care within an interprofessional framework.
This chapter highlights the circle of caring, continuity, prevention, health
equity, and quality improvement. Advanced practice nurses integrate evidence-
based practice, ethical decision-making, cultural competence, and clinical
judgment to promote population health, manage chronic conditions, ensure
safety, and lead collaborative care across diverse primary care settings.
1. A key goal of primary care is to:
A. Focus only on acute illness treatment
B. Provide fragmented specialty services
C. Deliver continuous, comprehensive care
D. Limit care to physician-led encounters
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Primary care emphasizes continuity and comprehensive care
across the lifespan. Fragmentation and limited scope undermine quality,
access, and patient outcomes.
2. Which principle best reflects the “circle of caring” model?
A. Episodic treatment of illness
B. Task-oriented clinical encounters
C. Holistic, relationship-based care
D. Technology-driven decision-making
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: The circle of caring centers on holistic, relational, and patient-
focused care, not isolated tasks or episodic treatment.
3. A family nurse practitioner working with pharmacists and social workers
demonstrates:
A. Independent practice
B. Interprofessional collaboration
C. Delegation of care
D. Parallel practice
CORRECT ANSWER - B
Rationale: Interprofessional collaboration involves multiple disciplines
working together to improve outcomes, unlike parallel or isolated
practice.
4. A 58-year-old patient with diabetes and hypertension benefits most from
primary care because it:
A. Eliminates need for specialists
, B. Focuses only on medication refills
C. Coordinates chronic disease management
D. Prioritizes inpatient care
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Primary care coordinates long-term management, prevention,
and monitoring of chronic conditions across settings.
5. Which role is central to advanced practice nurses in primary care?
A. Performing only delegated tasks
B. Providing episodic urgent care
C. Health promotion and disease prevention
D. Limiting patient education
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Advanced practice nurses emphasize prevention, education,
and health promotion as core primary care responsibilities.
6. Access to care in primary care is best defined as:
A. Availability of specialty services
B. Care limited to office hours
C. Ability to obtain needed services
D. Use of advanced technology
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Access refers to patients’ ability to obtain timely, appropriate
care, not just availability of technology or specialists.
7. A nurse practitioner addressing social determinants of health is
practicing:
A. Acute care management
B. Biomedical care only
C. Population-focused care
D. Diagnostic reasoning
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Addressing social determinants reflects population-focused,
holistic primary care beyond biomedical diagnosis alone.
8. Which patient outcome best reflects effective primary care?
A. Increased emergency department use
B. Improved chronic disease control
C. Higher hospitalization rates
D. Fragmented follow-up care
CORRECT ANSWER - B
Rationale: Effective primary care improves chronic disease outcomes and
reduces unnecessary hospital and emergency utilization.
9. A primary care clinic using quality metrics to improve outcomes is
applying:
A. Defensive practice
SCIENCE OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
AN INTERPROFESSIONAL APPROACH 5TH
EDITION DUNPHY ALL CHAPTERS UPDATED
2026
,Primary Care: The Art and Science of Advanced Practice Nursing – An
Interprofessional Approach — Table of Contents (Chapter Titles)
1. Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of Caring
2. Caring and the Advanced Practice Nurse
3. Health Promotion
4. The Art of Diagnosis and Treatment
5. Evidence-Based Practice
6. Common Neurological Complaints
7. Seizure Disorders
8. Degenerative Disorders
9. Cerebrovascular Accident (Stroke)
10.Infectious and Inflammatory Neurological Disorders
11.Common Skin Complaints
12.Parasitic Skin Infestations
13.Fungal Skin Infections
14.Bacterial Skin Infections
15.Viral Skin Infections
16.Dermatitis
17.Skin Lesions
18.Common Eye Complaints
19.Lid and Conjunctival Pathology
20.Visual Disturbances and Impaired Vision
21.Common Ear, Nose, and Throat Complaints
22.Hearing and Balance Disorders
23.Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders of the Ear
24.Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders of the Nose, Sinuses, Mouth, and
Throat
25.Epistaxis
26.Temporomandibular Disorders
27.Dysphonia
,CHAPTER 1 TEST BANK QUESTIONS
CHAPTER 1: Primary Care in the Twenty-First Century: A Circle of
Caring
Primary care in the twenty-first century emphasizes patient-centered, accessible,
comprehensive, and coordinated care within an interprofessional framework.
This chapter highlights the circle of caring, continuity, prevention, health
equity, and quality improvement. Advanced practice nurses integrate evidence-
based practice, ethical decision-making, cultural competence, and clinical
judgment to promote population health, manage chronic conditions, ensure
safety, and lead collaborative care across diverse primary care settings.
1. A key goal of primary care is to:
A. Focus only on acute illness treatment
B. Provide fragmented specialty services
C. Deliver continuous, comprehensive care
D. Limit care to physician-led encounters
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Primary care emphasizes continuity and comprehensive care
across the lifespan. Fragmentation and limited scope undermine quality,
access, and patient outcomes.
2. Which principle best reflects the “circle of caring” model?
A. Episodic treatment of illness
B. Task-oriented clinical encounters
C. Holistic, relationship-based care
D. Technology-driven decision-making
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: The circle of caring centers on holistic, relational, and patient-
focused care, not isolated tasks or episodic treatment.
3. A family nurse practitioner working with pharmacists and social workers
demonstrates:
A. Independent practice
B. Interprofessional collaboration
C. Delegation of care
D. Parallel practice
CORRECT ANSWER - B
Rationale: Interprofessional collaboration involves multiple disciplines
working together to improve outcomes, unlike parallel or isolated
practice.
4. A 58-year-old patient with diabetes and hypertension benefits most from
primary care because it:
A. Eliminates need for specialists
, B. Focuses only on medication refills
C. Coordinates chronic disease management
D. Prioritizes inpatient care
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Primary care coordinates long-term management, prevention,
and monitoring of chronic conditions across settings.
5. Which role is central to advanced practice nurses in primary care?
A. Performing only delegated tasks
B. Providing episodic urgent care
C. Health promotion and disease prevention
D. Limiting patient education
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Advanced practice nurses emphasize prevention, education,
and health promotion as core primary care responsibilities.
6. Access to care in primary care is best defined as:
A. Availability of specialty services
B. Care limited to office hours
C. Ability to obtain needed services
D. Use of advanced technology
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Access refers to patients’ ability to obtain timely, appropriate
care, not just availability of technology or specialists.
7. A nurse practitioner addressing social determinants of health is
practicing:
A. Acute care management
B. Biomedical care only
C. Population-focused care
D. Diagnostic reasoning
CORRECT ANSWER - C
Rationale: Addressing social determinants reflects population-focused,
holistic primary care beyond biomedical diagnosis alone.
8. Which patient outcome best reflects effective primary care?
A. Increased emergency department use
B. Improved chronic disease control
C. Higher hospitalization rates
D. Fragmented follow-up care
CORRECT ANSWER - B
Rationale: Effective primary care improves chronic disease outcomes and
reduces unnecessary hospital and emergency utilization.
9. A primary care clinic using quality metrics to improve outcomes is
applying:
A. Defensive practice
